Zero emission capable private hire vehicles

Caroline Russell: How many private hire vehicles (PHVs) currently licensed in London are Zero Emission Capable (ZEC), and what proportion of the fleet do they represent?

The Mayor: Since 1 January 2020, all private hire vehicles new to licensing must meet Transport for London’s (TfL’s) Zero Emission Capable (ZEC) requirements if they are under 18 months old when licensed for the first time in London. However, a number of private hire vehicles which were licensed before this date also meet ZEC requirements.
TfL checks and ensures newly licensed vehicles meet its ZEC requirements. It records details of all licensed vehicles including the make, model, fuel type and DVLA registration date of each vehicle, however, it does not hold the overall number of ZEC vehicles within its private hire fleet as this is not currently recorded in its database. TfL is analysing the data it holds and will provide you with a full response as soon as this work is complete.

Setting climate targets

Caroline Russell: How do you expect London to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030 when your Mayoral strategies have 2050 targets?

The Mayor: The science, experts and the public, are demanding an even more urgent response to the climate crisis than when I was elected in 2016.
The UN recently published its Assessment of Global Climate in 2019 and warned that the world is “way off track” in limiting warming to 1.5C or even 2C, and that “time is fast running out for us to avert the worst impacts of climate disruption and protect our societies.”
The public and business are increasingly willing to change the way they operate. 70 per cent of Londoners supported my declaration of a climate emergency and they are demanding we go faster. That is why Government must take more decisive action and go faster.
It is crystal clear to me that what we need now is action. Not a decade of strategy rewrites. With Londoners, boroughs and businesses as partners, I believe we can tackle this crisis.

TfL Performance Award Matrices

Unmesh Desai: Please share the matrices TfL uses for the allocation of performance awards for (i) directors and (ii) managing directors.

The Mayor: The matrices in the attached file are used to calculate the performance awards for Directors and Managing Directors in 2018/19. Each Performance Award is a factor of Scorecard Performance, individual performance rating and existing base salary. The percentages provided equate to what percentage of their salary a Director and Managing Director would receive, depending on the Scorecard output and their individual performance.